1924
Negative Curvature Cosmology
The achievement marks negative curvature cosmology as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Leningrad in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The achievement marks negative curvature cosmology as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Publishes a relativistic universe model with constant negative spatial curvature.
Develops a theory describing branching chain reactions.
The achievement marks chemical kinetics as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Stages street demonstrations on the 10th anniversarry of the October Revolution
The assassination of Kirov sparks off purges in Russia
Assassination by Stalins men is used by Stalin to begin his party purges
Death of Sergei Mironovich Kirov, assassinated
"with the preservation of the capitalist system a long & enduring peace is impossible"
Appointed Mayor of Leningrad
"with the preservation of the capitalist system a long & enduring peace is impossible"
Takes over the defense of Leningrad
Helps found the Military Soviet for the Defence of Leningrad
Helps found the Military Soviet for the Defence of Leningrad
By the end of the month the Germans give up storming the City & dig in for a siege. Arrives in Leningrad to co-ordinate its defenses
The "Leningrad Symphony" is premiered by a half-starved orchestra
Ordered to plan the Russian recapture of Leningrad
Begins the offensive to recapture Leningrad
The Soviet Union announces the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted 880 days with 600,000 killed. 633,000 civilians had died from starvation & a 200,000 from German military action
Lenigrad is purged
Birth of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Putin graduates from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University
Serves in the 5th Directorate of the KGB, which combated political dissent in the Soviet Union. Recruited into the KGB. Putin joins the KGB in 1975 upon graduation from university, and underwent a years training at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad
Putin graduates from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University
The achievement marks quantum dots in glass as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Creates semiconductor nanocrystals in glass and observes size-dependent optical properties.
Helps found the Leningrad Perestroika Club
Assumes a position with the International Affairs section of Leningrad State University, reporting to Vice Rector Yuriy Molchanov
Appointed Chairman Leningrad City Soviet Executive Committee
The final Comecon council session takes place June 28, 1991 in Budapest, and led to an agreement to disband within 90 days
Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Appointed First Deputy Head of the Administration of the city of Saint Petersburg
Putin leads the St. Petersburg branch of the pro-Government Our Home Is Russia political party
A border conflict occurs between Egypt & the Sudan
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